to New
Holland, descriptions of which, from the pen of the Reverend F.W. Hope,
may shortly be looked for.

(*Footnote. The Entomologist, conducted by Edward Newman. London Van
Voorst in Monthly Numbers.)

The north-west coast of New Holland has been but little investigated, and
yet in that quarter the late Allan Cunningham gathered a rich harvest of
rare and unknown species; but it would take too much space to tell what
parts have not been searched for insects, suffice it to say that the Swan
River settlement, Kangaroo and Melville islands, Adelaide, Sydney, and
Hobart Town seem all peculiarly rich in species, and what may we not
expect from New Zealand, from the samples already given of its entomology
by Fabricius and Shuckard, not to mention others who have described
species from that locality.

We yet hope to see a general work on the subject similar to the truly
national work on the Birds and Kangaroos at present publishing by Mr.
Gould. Mr. G.R. Gray commenced such a work in quarto, and the beautiful
number illustrated by the late Charles Curtis, containing species of
Phasmidae, it is to be hoped will not be left single.* I have only room
to add that, owing to many other occupations, I can at present give only
a very imperfect list of the species you have presented to the National
Museum, which were all collected by you on the shores of King George's
Sound. A.W.

(*Footnote. I see in Laporte and Gory's Histoire Naturelle et
Iconographic des Coleopteres, a work on Australian Insects, by the
Reverend Frederick W. Hope, often quoted as Synopsis of the Insects of
New Holland, but this must be privately printed, as I have never seen it
or heard of it elsewhere.

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COLEOPTERA.

CARENUM, Bon. Carenum perplexum.

I think this may be the Scarites cyaneus Fabricius described from the
Banksian Cabinet in 1775 (Systema Entomologiae page 249 g. 68 sp. 2.) It
differs however from his description in the appendiculated thorax (the
sides of which are rounded) being abruptly cut off behind, and in having
the somewhat dilated margin there, slightly emarginate. The general
surface of the thorax is not so bright in colour as the elytra, it has
more of a purple reflection; a dark greenish hue prevails over the
elytra, the anterior edge of each having, towards the margin, a slight
bend upwards, which forms a kind of tooth, projecting slightly over the
somewhat dilated margin of the elytra, along the margin of these are at